Cleverbot

About Cleverbot

The site Cleverbot.com started in 2006, but the AI was 'born' in 1988, when Rollo Carpenter saw how to make his machine learn. It has been learning ever since!

Things you say to Cleverbot today may influence what it says to others in future. The program chooses how to respond to you fuzzily, and contextually, the whole of your conversation being compared to the millions that have taken place before.

Many people say there is no bot - that it is connecting people together, live. The AI can seem human because it says things real people do say, but it is always software, imitating people.

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You'll have seen scissors on Cleverbot. Using them you can share snippets of chats with friends on social networks. Now you can share snips at Cleverbot.com too!

When you sign in to Cleverbot on this blue bar, you can:

Tweak how the AI responds - 3 different ways!Keep a history of multiple conversationsSwitch between conversationsReturn to a conversation on any machinePublish snippets - snips! - for the world to seeFind and follow friendsBe followed yourself!Rate snips, and see the funniest of themReply to snips posted by othersVote on replies, from awful to great!Choose not to show the scissors

Cleverbot comes very close to passing the Turing Test

A high-powered version of Cleverbot took part alongside humans in a formal Turing Test at the Techniche 2011 festival. The results from 1,334 votes were astonishing...

Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3% human.

The humans in the event achieved just 63.3%.

"It's higher than even I was expecting, or even hoping for. The figures exceeded 50%, and you could say that's a pass. But 59% is not quite 63%, so there is still a difference between human and machine." Rollo Carpenter

During the event people voted how human-like responses seemed, from 0 to 10. Thirty of the audience volunteered, and chatted on 3 screens in 10 rounds of 4 minutes each. Half the conversations were human-human.

The Turing Test was proposed by early computer scientist Alan Turing. 'Thinking' and 'intelligence' are hard to define, so he suggested a test, with people and machines communicating via text. If a person could not tell human from machine more than half the time, the machine should be called intelligent.

Turing made a prediction that in 5-minute conversations machines would pass the test 30% of the time by the year 2000. That mark has now surely been passed. And with 30 conversations, 100 separate voting individuals and a total of 1,334 votes cast, the Turing Test at IIT Guwahati holds mathematical significance. Even so, different tests with different people and circumstances can and certainly will see different results.

"It was mesmerising to watch a bot chatting just like a human, and people finding it so hard to distinguish." One of the humans at the event

Our AI has been learning online for 15 years, but has recently seen an exponential growth curve of data and visitors. It is normal for there to be 100,000 conversations a day, each with 20 or more interactions. There will have been a billion things said to Cleverbot by the end of this year alone.

Cleverbot was given more processing power for this test than it can be online. It had two dedicated, fast computers with solid state drives while talking to just 1 or 2 people at once. Online there are often 1000 people talking to each machine. We know you'd all love to talk to it the powerful version, but we need a lot more servers first!

THANK YOU to all Cleverbot users for helping it to learn. We intend to fully, unquestionably, pass the Turing Test, with new resources and extensions to the AI on the way.